COPHE Library Consortia Offer

COPHE member institutions are welcome to become a part of COPHE’s Library Network. Network members select from the following list of subscription options.

The subscription is implemented with COPHE as the lead subscriber with COPHE member libraries bound by the master licence agreement. This means excellent value for those who choose to be involved. Costs calculated take into account the breadth of disciplines and EFSL count for the prior year. Subscriptions run by calendar year.

Informit AGIS Plus Text is developed in partnership with the Attorney-General’s Information Service Australia and is an authoritative collection of legal resources developed for the legal profession and for the study of Commonwealth-based law. https://www.informit.org/informit-agis-plus-text

Informit Business Collectionis an essential resource for business studies, covering theoretical and practical aspects of business in multiple contexts. The Collection contains content to assist students, researchers and business practitioners better understand today’s dynamic, global business environment. https://www.informit.org/informit-business-collection

Informit Families & Society Collection provides up-to-date research on family wellbeing and the place of families in society. The database features evidence-based information and resources for lecturers, students, researchers and professionals, in the child, family and community welfare sectors. https://www.informit.org/informit-families-society-collection

Informit Media

Informit EduTV and Informit TVNews make it easy for educators and students to find and watch relevant television content instantly. Informit’s Media products are essential resources for teaching and learning and allow institutions to derive maximum benefit from their Screenrights licence.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, subscription-based database of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and reference sources. It currently contains 14,000 indexed journals offering extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and others. This easy-to-use database is the perfect fit for your academic library, providing both academics and students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels with the ultimate periodical resource for serious, extensive research.

Academic OneFileis a 2009 and 2008 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Online General Reference Service. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.

Academic OneFile includes:

More than 14,000 titles, including more than 9,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 6,000 in full text

Full text of The New York Times from 1985 to present

Links with JSTOR for archival access to periodicals and Open URL compliances for access to e-journal and subscription materials

Thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and CBC

Links to medical videos

Strong coverage of hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business

Full collection of Elsevier abstracts for every Elsevier journal from 1996 to present

Full text of the London Times and Financial Times

Full text for periodicals covered in major bibliographic resources such as CINAHL, BIOSIS, MLS, PsycInfo, ERIC, EconLit, RILM and others

Key, peer-reviewed journals published in Spanish, French and other languages n Ability to translate all content to 11 different languages

24/7 access

Access to a range of additional collections created to fill subject-specific curricular needs

Gale PowerPacks

Providing your students with databases centred around their chosen curriculum ensures they go to the right databases for the right information quickly.

As part of the subscription to Academic OneFile we are offering libraries the Gale PowerPack. The PowerPack includes numerous subject-specific collections of periodical content that appear as individual products on your site’s common menu. In addition to periodicals, a number of these databases include unique high-quality reference content published by Gale and other respected reference publishers not found in Academic OneFile.

Oxford Reference offers fast access to Oxford’s quality reference publishing, bringing together over 2 million entries, many of which are illustrated, into a single cross-searchable resource. It provides quality, up-to-date reference content at the click of a button. Made up of two main collections, both fully integrated and cross-searchable, Oxford Reference couples Oxford’s trusted A-Z reference material with an intuitive design to deliver a discoverable, up-to-date, and expanding reference resource.

Oxford Quick Reference

Quickly check a fact, or find out key information about a concept, person, or term

• Over 16,000 illustrations, including photographs, line diagrams, maps, and tables

• Monthly content updates, exclusive online-only titles, and new major reference titles added throughout the year

• All Oxford Reference entries are now discoverable in open web searches helping users find content more easily.

Oxford University Press also produces a wide range of material to help subscribers maximise the value of their online resources. For training materials, product demonstrations and tools to increase discoverability and usage see http://www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians/.

SAGE Research Methods (SRM) is an online collection of books and other full-text materials (handbooks, the entire ‘Little Green Book”, and “Little Blue Book” series, encyclopaedias, selection of journal articles and commission videos) that provide authoritative information on how to perform hundreds of research methods.

SRM offers great coverage on all steps of the research process, such as writing a research question, conducting a literature review and writing up the findings. Short introductions and lengthy explorations of hundreds of research methods used in the social sciences are also available.

All of the content on SRM is designed to instruct readers new to a method or a concept in how to employ that method or concept themselves in their own research.

SAGE’s online tool for researchers has won the 2011 Magnum Opus Gold Award for Best Navigation, the 2011 Apex Award for “One-of-a-Kind” Electronic and Web Publication and was Highly recommended for libraries by CHOICE.

The SAGE Research Methods also includes additional components:

SAGE Research Methods Cases:

– is a collection of 400+ original case studies and provides real research projects and research scenarios written by the researchers themselves. It is especially commissioned and designed to help students understand abstract methodological concepts. Cases is suitable for undergraduate and masters level courses in core social science disciplines.

SAGE Research Methods Datasets:

– provides 100+ sample datasets that students can use to practice doing data analysis and that teachers can use in a research methods course to demonstrate various analytical techniques.

The quantitative datasets are drawn from large surveys, experiments, or federal data sources, and have been cleaned and reduced in complexity to make them suitable for use with students. The quantitative datasets come with a step-by-step guide showing how to perform a statistical technique using the data in SPSS, the leading statistical software package in the social sciences.

All issues, from volume 1, issue 1, are provided for every journal, including all previous and related titles. Millions of pages of content is added to the collections annually, which means that the cost per page for the JSTOR archival journal collections decreases every year.

At present, this set of archival journal collections now total more than 10.2 million articles, representing 63.8 million pages and 15,600 linear feet of shelf space savings. In 2017 alone, JSTOR added 350,700 articles, representing 1.5 million pages and 390 linear feet of shelf space savings.

Added in 2018 is Business IV: The collection expands JSTOR’s business and economics coverage, and features top journals in economics, finance, management & organizational behavior, and labor & employment relations. Publishers span six countries and multiple languages, and all titles are new to JSTOR and do not overlap with existing or future collections on the JSTOR archive.

In addition to the Journal collections, from 2018 Books at JSTOR provides a simple, cost-effective ebook model giving COPHE Subscribers with unlimited access to 27,000+ ebooks at an affordable cost. The Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) model was developed with library input to ensure access to high-quality backlist titles with a total list price of US$3.1 million. There are no additional fees.

You can get free MARC records from OCLC or activate the collection in your discovery service. You’ll automatically receive updates as JSTOR add new titles to the program; we expect the program to grow to about 30,000 titles over the next six months (at no additional cost to libraries).

The DRM-free ebook chapters work just like the journal articles on JSTOR, with unlimited simultaneous use, downloads, and printing, and no need to log in or use special software. The ebooks are also cross-searchable with journals on our integrated platform. This creates an easy and familiar user experience for researchers.

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